We’re nation building in Afghanistan and Iraq to set up Western-style democracies. In many ways we’re encouraging them to be just like us. And today there is great news on that front: Afghanistan’s Kabul Bank is getting bailed out by their citizens .. just like their American counterparts! They even got into the mess in [...]
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Out: Telling Israel how many months or years they have to bomb Iran. In: Telling Israel how many days they have to bomb Iran. Yes, the window is still closing on Israel’s chance of survival, and it’s now down to only eight days! (Update: He has since revised it to three days!) I don’t think [...]
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Lately in the news we have been seeing a lot of what I call the “tyranny of negative emotion”. Common sense issues become controversies because someone, or a group of people, are negatively effected emotionally by it. The biggest story of this type is the mosque that they are planning to build in Manhattan. A [...]
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Class conflict. The very term takes the mind to thoughts of Marxism, class consciousness, and revolution. But there are other ways to view class conflicts besides that one paradigm. In the 21st century America will face a crisis. The desires of the ruling class will clash with the desires of the country class — the [...]
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A lot has been made of Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain, racking up hundreds of thousands in expenses. Meanwhile President Obama is trying to get the little people to “sacrifice” even more. All over the media people keep saying all these different things about the current political environment: they’re deaf, they’re ignorant, they don’t listen, [...]
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Perhaps I should be used to it by now, but once again some leftist has baldly asserted that supply side economics are nonsense. This morning it was Howard Dean on MSNBC. He said supply side economics are “hooey”. But he wasn’t finished yet (this man is an accomplished demagogue). He said Ronald Reagan proved they [...]
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The Democratic push for votes continues to amaze. Most people are aware that liberals have utilized dead people, convicts, and multiple votes for a single person. They also have a few plots working with an eye to the future — statehood for Puerto Rico, and allowing millions of unaccounted lawbreakers (or “undocumented Democrats” as some [...]
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New York state just passed its budget, four months late. It’s a state with one of the highest debt loads and deficits in the nation, rivaling and perhaps exceeding California in some respects. Here is a micro example of how benefits have been shaved off over time, permitting some sweet deals for those in previous [...]
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A video that was done some time ago, but it feels oddly good to watch these days. Jason Mattera confronted Charlie Rangel on ethics issues:
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A lot has been made of plans to build a Mosque in New York City. The reason being is that it is close to the 9/11 site. The term being used for this controversy is “the ground zero mosque” but this biases the discussion from the start. Why? Because the mosque isn’t at ground zero, [...]
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The judge who decided the Proposition 8 case in California yesterday is gay: The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay. It’s funny I didn’t hear of this [...]
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Today, a New York City panel voted unanimously to reject landmark status for a building in downtown Manhattan, paving the way for its demolition — and for the construction of a 13-story, $100 million mosque near the World Trade Center site. The Constitution of the United States (COTUS), that double-edged sword of sometimes loosely guaranteed [...]
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A freshman Utah congressman has complained about the pointless bills that Congress deals with — honoring race tracks, golfers, and Stanley Cup winners. I say: let them do their ceremonial sports votes — if that’s all they did we’d be better off!
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Angelo Codevilla’s latest article in the American Spectator chronicles the rise of the “Ruling Class” in America. Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social [...]
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From the National Enquirer: The ENQUIRER reports in an exclusive bombshell exclusive that police have investigated charges from TWO MORE WOMEN who claimed they were abused by former VP AL GORE! The allegations come hot on the heels of an ongoing Portland, Ore., police investigation that reopened after The ENQUIRER exclusively revealed accusations by a [...]
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It really is sad to read about a bunch of grown men holding back tears over such a thing. They mostly look like a bunch of writers and academics. The point of interest here is: the goal was to get a black president. It was not to get a COMPETENT president. Welcome to the era [...]
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Those darned teabaggers, they’re just too darned angry. That seems to be what we get told often by analysts and pundits. But it seems those very same journalists and pundits are just as hateful as everyone else. In comments send to Journolist, Sarah Spitz openly stated that she wanted to see Rush Limbaugh die during [...]
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